Reviewing TF2's Mannpower Mode

[@jektarade9899]

Haste is brutal to fight against, Especially if it's with S4. Other than that regenerative powerups are still annoying to fight against. But hey, you can't regenerate your health back if I can take your head off, Sniping 101. fun fact, In 12:58 I was stalling to charge the supernova powerup. So I was screwed if winter pushed before I popped it.

[@registered_dodo1743]

Like surfing ,trimping ,and rocket jumps there is some insane source-engine jank that you can pull off with grappling. One madman spy with either toxicity or health regeneration can be near unstoppable. Trust me. I've seen things...

[@tim14022000]

Mannpower actually was a game on it's own. If I remember correctly during the Half-Life 2 Leak a half-Life mod called Threewave leaked which basically was mannpower. But it was years since I was last read about that stuff so my I don't remember the threewave mannpower thing too well

[@wintermanthenforcer]

It was? I never heard of it and I'm quite an avid Half-Life fan

[@Kibble_Bites]

It's not just HL. It's been in HL, sure, but it goes all the way back to Quake 1 Threewave CTF and Quake 2 CTF roots. At that point it was it's own Quake mod aside from TF2 itself (probably the second most played because it was pretty popular back then from what I gather) that was just a mod for multiplayer CTF that adding grappling and "runes" or powerups.@@wintermanthenforcer

[@danielsurvivor1372]

1:47 I think it was done to reflect CTF gamemodes of other games. For example I think in Unreal Tournament you can't capture enemy flag if your flag isn't there... And yes, it's JUST as annoying there as it is here, especially since I played those games in campaign and not online so I had to do all the work as a human since bots are dumb 😅

[@JuhMall01]

I still have yet to play this mode

[@danielsurvivor1372]

0:17 This is still baffling. Why the hell they updated mannpower of all things due to unbalance? I read comment on some mannpower video about how one dev played this gamemode sometimes, so I guess that was blatant favouritism? 😅 You know I'd take this at this point so long as we get SOME balance changes 😢

[@Aryzon13]

Mannpower was effectively killed by the update that happened during covid (I forgot when exactly). Valve came back to TF2 and sucked out all the fun of Mannpower by implementing these stupid balancing changes like domination effect, flag holding regen/death mark and buffs to engineer and nerfs to heavy, healing penalties and many other crap. The spawn uber is the worst offender imo. My most fun time in TF2 was putting sentry nests near enemy spawn in Hellfire map. Now that is straight up impossible as the enemy can just push you out with their spawn uber. They tried to balance a mode that was never meant to be balanced. It was a place where big fish ate the small fish and that's what made it special. You could very well go on a 50 killstreak as a Demoknight with Knockout if you know what you are doing. Now you are just forced to lose if you play too well. Honestly, maybe Valve igoring TF2 is for the better after all. Because god forbid they update normal TF2 with the same mentality as they did with Mannpower.

[@wintermanthenforcer]

I kinda agree with that but I personally would welcome Ubercharge as spawn protection

[@blackirontarkus2672]

I think part of me died when I fought against anything Haste. - mute

[@ashtongiertz8728]

They should put the ubersaw nerf in the base game. Then it wouldn't be the only viable medigun.

[@s4neko419]

Haste become busted when weapon has stat which increases fire rate and reload speed which soda with haste has +100%firing speed and reload speed, which you also firing 4 shot in 1 clip. You can see why soda is busted as fuck

[@ChocoCinnabun]

Mann (😔) power

[@s4neko419]

Fun fact: regen is op when you don’t deal enough dps Laugh in haste soda poper

[@danielsurvivor1372]

2:22 No I don't understand. And you know why? Because I don't understand why tf such good balance changes are tucked away at a hecking MANNPOWER gamemode? Ancle Dan The Engy Man literally talked about how CTF capture crits is one of the biggest downsides of that gamemode, and Valve didn't fix it... But Mannpower doesn't have em... And they even added spawn protection, literally one of the most simplest solution to spawncamping, and it's not in casual game but in mannpower 😂😭😂😭😂😭😂😭😂😭